Monument record 1621/0/15 - Romano-British Street System (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{1} Hollowell's photographs of 1969 show metalled roads and streets.

{2} Enclosures and roads, including a junction of Roman roads.

{3} To the south west of Gartree Road, west of its junction with route 570, an irregular road system is known from cropmarks; the main road forming a loop from Gartree Road off which ran a number of side roads. The central series of junctions here created a polygonal space in which lay an important building complex that seemingly formed a core part of the town. To the north of Gartree Road two areas of permanent pasture obscure any evidence for similar secondary roads though field walking and air photographic evidence from neighbouring fields clearly indicate that the settlement did not extend more than 300m in this direction.

{5} Titchmarsh has an extensive, complex and relatively well-defined network of roads, similar in overall conception to those at Irchester and Ashton. Essentially they can be divided into two; first two main regional routes running northeast to southwest along the Nene (Margary 1973, route 570) and south east to north west across it (the Gartree
Road 57a); second, the sinuous dendritic network of shorter roads or track ways that provided access through the core of the settlement and presumably to the neighbouring landscape. To the south west of Gartree road, west of its junction with route 570, an irregular road system is known from cropmarks; the main road forming a loop from Gartree
road off which ran a number of side roads. The central series of junctions here created a polygonal space in which lay an important building complex that seemingly formed a core part of the town. To the north of Gartree road two areas of permanent pasture obscure any evidence for similar secondary roads though field walking and air photographic evidence from neighbouring fields clearly indicate that the settlement did not extend more than 300m in this direction.

<1> 1971, Northamptonshire Archaeology, p.18 (checked) (Note). SNN48512.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, TL07NW14 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Taylor J., 2000, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Titchmarsh (Roman), Section 3.1 Communications (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100748.

<4> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<5> Taylor J., 2000, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Titchmarsh (Roman), p.8-9 (part checked) (Report). SNN106660.

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